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9/11 (Paperback, New edition)
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After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a general sense
that the world was different--that nothing would ever be the
same--settled upon a grieving nation; the events of that day were
received as cataclysmic disruptions of an ordered world. Refuting
this claim, David Simpson examines the complex and paradoxical
character of American public discourse since that September
morning, considering the ways the event has been aestheticized,
exploited, and appropriated, while "Ground Zero" remains the
contested site of an effort at adequate commemoration.
In "9/11, "Simpson argues that elements of the conventional culture
of mourning and remembrance--grieving the dead, summarizing their
lives in obituaries, and erecting monuments in their memory--have
been co-opted for political advantage. He also confronts those who
labeled the event an "apocalypse," condemning their exploitation of
9/11 for the defense of torture and war.
In four elegant chapters--two of which expand on essays originally
published in the "London Review of Books "to great acclaim--Simpson
analyzes the response to 9/11: the nationally syndicated "Portraits
of Grief" obituaries in the "New York Times"; the debates over the
rebuilding of the World Trade Center towers and the memorial
design; the representation of American and Iraqi dead after the
invasion of March 2003, along with the worldwide circulation of the
Abu Ghraib torture photographs; and the urgent and largely ignored
critique of homeland rhetoric from the domain of critical theory.
Calling for a sustained cultural and theoretical analysis, "9/11"
is the first book of its kind to consider the events of that tragic
day with a perspective so firmlygrounded in the humanities and so
persuasive about the contribution they can make to our
understanding of its consequences.
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